Sri Lanka has jailed a man for three weeks after he admitted to hoarding four litres of petrol during a nationwide fuel shortage triggered by the Middle East war, local media reported yesterday.

Myanmar’s junta signalled changes in the military’s leadership ahead of the country’s annual show of force yesterday, potentially clearing the way for defence chief Min Aung Hlaing to become president.

A Nepali panel set up to investigate the violence during anti-corruption protests in September last year has recommended that former prime minister K P Sharma Oli be prosecuted for “negligence” for failing to prevent dozens of deaths.

Israel removed Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf from its hit list after Pakistan urged Washington to press Israel not to target them, a Pakistani source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters yesterday.

At least 77 people were killed in the anti-corruption youth uprising on September 8 and 9, which began over a brief social media ban, but tapped into longstanding fury over economic hardship

Thirteen people died when a wall collapsed on Wednesday, while five people, including two women, were killed elsewhere in the city

Families and friends of people undergoing treatment at a rehab centre in the Afghan capital Kabul searched for their loved ones yesterday, two days after it was bombed by Pakistan in the deadliest incident in the months-long conflict between the neighbours.

Indian investigators have arrested seven foreigners, including six Ukrainians and an American, on suspicion of illegally crossing into neighbouring Myanmar to train armed militia groups, the public radio broadcaster reported yesterday.

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah unseated former Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency, Election Commission data showed Saturday, with his party also seemingly headed for a landslide victory nationally.

Balendra Shah looked set to win by a landslide in parliamentary polls, but with counting still far to go

A three-year-old party led by rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah looked set to sweep Nepal’s general election yesterday, trouncing established rivals in a result analysts likened to a “tsunami”.

Counting for the House of Representatives continues

Shah's rise challenges Nepal's traditional political elite

Nearly six months after a wave of unprecedented youth-led protests and the deaths of 77 people forced Nepal’s then prime minister to quit, people began voting yesterday in a general election that will choose a new parliament in the Himalayan nation.

Here are five key dates to explain the dramatic political developments in the Himalayan nation of 30 million people

Afghan and Pakistani troops battled along their border, Afghan residents and officials told AFP yesterday, with the fighting coming alongside multiple strikes including the former US air base at Bagram.

Fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban military entered its third day yesterday as foreign governments expressed increasing concern and called for urgent talks.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers had said on Friday they were willing to negotiate after Pakistan bombed their forces in major cities

Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Afghan forces killed 55 Pakistani soldiers and captured several others, while putting the death toll among Afghan troops at 13

Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan “strategic depth” in its rivalry with India. What’s gone wrong?